The Lower East Side Stories series invites professionals and up-and-comers from the storytelling circuit to tell New York tales around a particular theme. This is the last event in the “Lower East Side Stories” series which features stories related to the holidays.

Recorded at the Tenement Museum, December 17, 2009. Runtime: 74 minutes.

About the Tenement Museum

We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants.They faced challenges we understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, starting a family with limited means.

In recognizing the importance of this seemingly ordinary building, the Tenement Museum has re-imagined the role that museums can play in our lives.